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Newspaper Page TextFOtra MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDF08DfcTRIBUNB "Zveryon tn Soutbern Oregon BeadaThe Mail Tribune" Published DaUy Excem Saturday by VtEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-28 North FIT St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buainev Managsr ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Ot Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SoortJ Editor OLJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipa per Entered aa second class matter at MwUord Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advanca Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year 915 00 Dally and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes' Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 130 Lamer and Dealer 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance OfflcialPaper of the City of Medford OfflclaJ Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY tNC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL I D I T 0 1 1 A i I assocTamon NIWSPAPI V PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mai Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 3u years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1947 (Friday) The "Hire a Vet" drive here is producing good results, accord ing to M. E. "Bud" Fisher, field assistant of the veterans employ ment service. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: According to well established Applegate district lore, the meat of a hog butchered in the dark of the moon, will curl up at the edges when fried. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1937 (Sunday) Jackson county completes Red Cross flood relief quota with total of $2,752.82, according to George T. Frey, county chair man. Plans for continuing the eradi cation of blight and disease in deserted orchards are considered by Jackson county court. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1927 (Monday) Southern Pacific gives consent of constructing a grade crossing at Sixth st. over the railroad tracks, according to Mayor O. U. Alenderfer. A speech, "Thrift in Business Is given by A. J. Crose at meet ing of Jackson Parent Teacher's association. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1917 (Wednesday) Germany serves notice upon all neutrals that restrictions an Naval warfare have been re moved and that ships will be sunk regardless of nationality or cargo in barred zones. Shortage of fish in upper Rogue is due more to lack of screens in irrigation ditches than to commercial fishing, states J. C. Sitken, inventor of Sitken screen. What's Your I.Q.7 Kin or tn correct U superior; mt. a or eight U excellent; fiv or tlx is good. 1. Was the first telescope used in the U.S. (1830) set up at Harvard, Yale, or Princtton College? 2. Pietro M a s c a g n i's best known opera is C a R a. 3. Bible: Who said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"? 4. What Is the name for the science of animals? 5. Does "quid pro quo" mean something for nothing, or value received? 6. Wilmington is the capital of which state? 7. Which famous explorer was known as the "Admiral of the Ocean Seas"? f, 8. The mass trial of World War II arch criminals was held at which city in Germany? 9. Is the word "stand" ex pressive of more than one col loquialism? 10. Fit in the name of the flower: "Fresh as a" what? Answers.- 1. Yala (1S3Q1. 2. CaTsilaria Rusticana. 3. Jesus. 4. Zoology. 5. Something for something (value received). 6. No stat. It it th chief ciiv of Delaware. 7. Christopher Co lumbus. 8. Nuernburg. a. res it). "Daisy." Another "Ify" Question The photogravure section of last Sunday's Ore gonian features a lengthy symposium entitled "What's ahead for the Republican party in Oregon." Robert C. Notson the paper's capable managing editor acted as "M.C." while the panel consisted of such prominent and law abiding Republicans as Rob ert T. Mautz, state national committeeman; State Senator Rudie Wilhelm Jr. ; and the primary oppon ent of former Governor Douglas McKay for a seat in the US Senate (later his ardent supporter against Senator Morse), Philip S. Hitchcock. As remarked it is a lengthy offering, too lengthy to be adequately summarized in this space, or any where else we imagine. But the main point made was that the future of the Grand Old Party in this state looks cheery and bright, IF the Republicans get smart (like the Demo crats,) and instead of going into a campaign of high powered propaganda and expert salesmanship only a few weeks before the election, conduct a campaign approximately the year around. This should be done not with the old-school stand-pat type of candidates but with a new school, young, "zaalous and articu late." TELL there is undoubtedly something to be said for this diagnosis, particularly in the direction of selecting better qualified and more energetic can didates. But it seems to this department that the main cause of the Democratic victories in the state last November has been overlooked in this offering, namely: not only the superior calibre of the candi dates but WHAT THEY STOOD FOR. THERE were many sneering remarks made by the Republican campaigners about the Morse slo gan of placing "principle above party," the public welfare above private profit, conservation of natural resources state and national rather than exploitation by "Big Business." But it took more than sneers and smears to hide from the people of Oregon as a whole, the plain fact that by and large the Republican can didates McKay, Smith and Ellsworth DID represent the Old Guard astigmatism and the "backward look"; while the'Democratic candidates DID represent a new group and a progressive and constructive FOR WARD look. THIS conflict in viewpoint and principle, became clearer and clearer as and the diff ering views regarding such issues as Hells Canyon, Al Sarena, and Pub..ic Power, became more and more apparent. Probably the superior campaigning ability and persistence of the Democratic candidates did prove a factor, but as we see it, a minor one. If the issues had been reversed and the personal ities and political techniques of the candidates re named the same, our guess is the results would not have been materially different. For the people of Oregon as a whole, wanted less partisanship and more principle in politics; they WANTED conservation rather than exploitation of our natural resources; and trey wanted and we be lieve STILL want what only FEDERAL and multi ple development of electric l ight and power can give the MAXIMUM production at the LOWEST profit able rate, for the benefit of .LL the people. Wanting- these things, they naturally voted for the candidates and the partj, they believed best cal culated to give them. That as we see it, is the main cause of what hap pened. TT IS hardly necessary to add, however, the Repub " lican trio in this symposium did not agree with any such diagnosis. In fact Mr. Wilhelm at least, attributed the defeat of the Republican aspirants for congress to the fact they did not go along with the Eisenhower program, and the position of the Republicans will be greatly enhanced in 1958 if they do and show a greater soli darity behind the most popular President since the redoubtable "T.R." THAT, we grant, is a new view point. We only wish Mr. Wilhelm had cited some facts to support his thesis. In what direction, for example, did Messers Mc Kay, Ellsworth and Smith, fail to follow the "We like Ike" line, and scorn any passage they could secure, on his ample coat-tails? It would be interesting to know. : Our recollection is the GOP candidates unitedly and enthusiastically supported and lauded "Ike" at every opportunity, while the Democratic candidates repeatedly took issue with gram particularly regarding education, public power and conservation. A T the close of the symposium, however, we must admit that as far as his party and devotion to Kay would permit, Mr. Hitchcock gave unmistakable signs of a certain doubt and skepticism regarding the basic progressive principles of his party and its future m this state. For example, in answer to questions by "MC" Notson, Mr. Hitchcock frankly admitted that regard ing the partnership plan tion, he thought "The Republicans came to regard it as a means of doing nothing rather than doing some things," and as for the fact that as "new workers come into Oregon, become settled they will tend to become more conservative and tend more to the Republican party," he somewhat Thursday, January 31, 1957 the campaign progressed, the administration s pro loyalty to the Republican ex-Secretary of the Interior Mc of the present admimstra- more prosperous:and more Matter of Fact by Joseph BEFORE A SIBERIAN JOURNEY Moscow As these words are written, this reporter's bags are packed for a long Siberian journey. The first Moscow chapter is end ing; so this seems a good .moment to try to sum up the first impres sions, or rather 4a H... L. J the surprises. Joseph Alsop of an mtroduc- tion to the Soviet scene. . These last two weeks have been the most interesting and awakening political experience which this reporter can remem ber in a very long time. Above all, the surprises have come thick and fast, succeeding one another with a rapidity at once bewildering and Intensely stimu lating. There is the character of Rus sian architecture, for example. Who would have been prepared for something like the archi tecture of Palmyra alien styles borrowed from a foreign culture, and made larger, heavier and more ornate and more grandiose to suit the taste of borrower? Or again, there is the character of official Soviet taste. Even after many warnings, who could ex pect to find a great nation ap parently conimitted, in the year 1957, to the approximate stand ards of taste of a small German principality of the mid-Victorian era? Yet that is the taste which reigns here under the curious label of "Socialist real ism." rpHE charm and vitality of the people, wonderfully retained despite the hardness of their lives: the obstinate vigor of the Russian intelligentisia, which should have died in the grim years of Stalin; the intensity of most Russians' interest in the arts and the things of the mind. despite or perhaps because of their limited opportunities in these realms of experience all these are other surprises in a long, astonishing list. But that list's biggest, most significant, most perspective- changing item is unfortunately the hardest to pin down in words. Maybe the best way is to describe this central surprise is the discovery that, although the problems of this powerful Soviet society are wildly different from the problems of our Western society, they are very real prob lems for all that. It sounds banal when put like that. It may also sound too re assuring; and it is well to re member that the Soviet leaders do not appear to have any cur rent problem so urgent, so hard to solve and so likely to produce a weakening result as the crisis that now confronts the Western leaders in the Middle East. The central Soviet problem, which the wisest foreign observers re gard as having a deeper import ance than the unrest in Eastern Europe, is in fact a long term problem. THE problem actually arises frnm th ffrpatpct. cinflp Soviet achievement. By great sacrifices, at fearful cost, the Soviet Union has now been raised to the level of a high technical society, with an in dustrial production surpassing the combined production of the two originators of the industrial revolution, Britain and Ger many. As a high technical so ciety, the Soviet Union may seem mal-formed and mis-shapen to our Western eyes.- Con sumer goods have been persist ently slighted, and are being slighted today in favor of the kinds of . industrial investment that increase the strength of the state rather than the comfort of the citizens. But this is now a high technical society all the same. In political terms, that means two things. On the one hand. education on a wide scale has been essential. So the Russian people are no longer the dumb. compliant mass of illiterate peas ants that the Soviet leaders in herited 40 years ago. The peo ple now include a very large educated element who know about and hanker for broader horizons. e , . ON the other hand, preclsely because the status of a high technical society has now been achieved here, the methods that were used to achieve this great result are no longer really work able. In the building phase, to illogically praised the type of approach of President Eisenhower to this question and then added quote : . "I think that as people get a stake in the economy they are interested in its conservation. But they are still going to be interested in progress and growth and development and meeting new situations as they come up. The type of , approach that President Eisenhower has m that area will prosper and if the Republican party in Oregon adopts that kind of approach it wUl enlist the support of "these jjeople. If it DOESN'T it WONT." i , CDITOR .Notson being a keen and sophisticated newspaper executive decided this was a good time to call it a day,-and pursue such a line of reasoning no farther. So said he: "Thanks very much I think that is a good note to close on." The Mail Tribune seconds the motion, it was, and is ! R.WiR. - put it crudely, it was possible to use the knout, as Stalin may be said to have done. But once it has been successfully built, this kind of society is too complex. too massive, too delicate in its inter-relationships, too full of ramifying chains of conse quence, to be successfully man aged with the knout alone. Thus while the education necessarily given to the people has created a longing for broad er horizons, the progress in the society itself has created a posi tive need of an even more im portant character. This is the need for more independence of judgment, more freedom of de cision, more flexibility and more open communication at all levels of the Soviet managerial ap paratus. The Soviet leaders unquestion ably launched the famous de Stalinization campaign because they recognized the demand and the need too briefly and crude ly set forth above. Almost equal ly unquestionably, they were as surprised as everyone else by the uncomfortably dramatic re sponse which followed. Hence the statue of Stalin is now be ing regilded in patches, and the patches are likely to get con siderably bigger in the near fu ture. Yet that will only obscure, and cannot permanently solve, the problem created for the Soviet leaders by their own suc cess. (Copyright New York Herald' Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. God Forbid To the Editor: I am writing because of the proposed Free way. I hope that the citizens of of Medford will fight this cruel measure of the highway commis sion to bring this awful thing through our city! destroying people's homes and causing much suffering, especially for older people. This is a very cruel and heartless measure. Are we living Russian, or some wartom country that some dictator can command us to leave our homes so they can destroy them? May God forbid. Let them do their destructive work outside of Medford. If it should hurt the orchards, it is not as bad as hurting people. Lets get togeth er and fight this 'thing. So God help us! Mrs. Lydia Ehrke, 200 Tripp st., Medford, Ore. Power and Responsibility Tn tho FHitor: Reference your editorial. A "Bad Neighbor"? on Jan. 28. Thank vou for indicating the thinking behind the city's policy of not providing services to areas outside the city iimiis. may i point to the fallacies in that method of thinking? Rerrvriale is not asking the city to provide it with city serv ices. The Berrydale baniiary District, formed under the laws of Oregon, is asking the city of Medford, who is furnishing a "Public Service", to pertorm xne "Piihlic Dutv" and honor the agreement entered into between them in 1951 for the acceptance of district sewage for treatment by the city. The contract is good for ten years in case the city wishes to honor it. Matter of fact, a contract is not one of the requirements for obtaining a "Public Service". Usually a city is not required to furnish public services outside of its limits, but once it does thon it takes on a DUblic duty to provide that service to like per sons without cuscrimuiauuii. It Is generaUy known, in a nf thi kind, that when the need of the applicant is immedi ate, the person from wnom ne must ask for service has an un fair aHvantaee if he is Drone to take it. This is also true when the person has the only estab lished service of the kind re nnirpH. ProDer weights and bal ances should be applied to even the scales. . I repeat again the district rio not ask the citv for credit. It is wiUing and able to pay its own way. It may not be so aDie if its tavps ar increased to a lari pvtent. It has met all the conditions prerequisite to form a lawful district and has offered to' meet all the conditions xe- Two Important Moslem Nations Join U.S. in Mid-East Position By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Two important Moslem coun tries are joining the United States in its attempt to strength- en the Allied position in the Middle East. The two 'I If countries are 1M3 Turkey and Iran, both members of the Baghdad alliance, which is aimed at op- rharlcs McCino posing - C O m- munist aggression. - While King Saud of Saudi Arabia is visiting Washington, Turkish Premier Adnan Men deres is making a state visit to Libya, one of the nine Arab countries with which the new Eisenhower Doctrine is chiefly. Today and By Walter THE REVIVAL OF EUROPE In the backwash of the dis aster in the Middle East there are many in Britain and France ... 1. n V. .... A f .ll Wlll Jill IJI.UWS1 W II U LI a V '. J turned toward their best hope for the future lies in the uni fication of Europe." Mr. Macmillan and his new Chan cellor of the E x c h e q uer, Halter Lippmano Mr. Thornycroft, are both sup porters of British participation in the project to establish a lim ited free trade area in Western Europe. Within the free trade area, which Britain and the Scandi navian countries may join, there may soon be ready treaties to establish a still more intimate economic union consisting of France, West Germany, Italy and the three Low Countries. These treaties would create what is called a common market and would provide also for collabor ation in the development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The French .Prime Minister, M. Mollet, has long been an ad vocate of projects which go even further than that; and reach out toward certain tentative experi ments in political confederation. A LL these projects have beep under negotiation for a con siderable period of time. But they have acquired very consia erable popular and political support since the Suez crisis in the autumn. It had long been argued that while Western Eu rope was sub-divided into a large number of small national economies, none of these separ ate nations would be able to compete successfully with big countries like the United States and Russia where a very large market sustains mass produc tion. This economic argument for greater European unity has been making some headway, at though the resistance of the shel tered national vested interests is very powerful. The autumn crisis over Suez has provided a powerful politi cal argument one which ap peals to the pride and the patri otism of the European nations. quired by the city for connec tions as have been required from like districts who now are using the public services provided by the city of Medford. I wonder if the city fathers are aware of their public duty to the community as a whole? Medford has a certain amount of control, pertaining to planning and the building of subdivisions for quite an area around the city, that it exercises. Does it follow that they also have re sponsibilities? William Doernbach 143 Mace road. Medford, Ore. V" 1 i We Pledge To Give You .... . . . The QUALITY you expect, ... The SERVICE you desire, "... At the PRICE you select. i DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary concerned. . It is announced also that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran will visit King Saud on March 3. Neither of these visits is like ly to receive much attention out side of the Middle East itself. But it may be taken for grant ed that neither President Gamal Nasser of Egypt, who aspires to leadership of the Arab world, nor Soviet Russia will welcome them. Fit In Perfectly The visits of Menderes and the Shah fit in perfectly with the aims of the Eisenhower Doc trine. They are calculated to oppose the anti-Western, pro-Russian trend which Nasser's policies have encouraged in Arab coun tries. Libya is at the western end of To morrow Llppmann What happened at Suez and in the United Nations provided a spectacular demonstration that in Europe, which was for so long the political center of the world, there are no longer any world powers. Europe is divided by the Iron Curtain, and West ern Europe is sub-divided into a number of weak and national states, none of them on the mod ern scale of a great power. It was shown in the autumn, that this divided and sub-divided Eu rope is unable, either by diplo macy or by force, to affirm and to defend its vital interests in the outer world. MM VET there are in Western Eu- rope some 250,000,000 peo ple, more than there are in either the Soviet Union or the United States. Their level of edu cation is the highest in the world. Were they given a mod ernized large scale economy, there is no mass of people any where who would surpass them in capacity to work. It is plain that their econo mies are weak and their politi cal influence is low because of their disunity. For what else can explain the fact that on the great international issues of life and death neither Europe as such nor any nation in Europe is treated as a principal power? THE question -which troubles mp rinps nnt come frnm anv doubt that the case for greater unity is a good one, or that the projects for a common market, for a larger free trade area, and for atomic energy deserve en couragement and support by all men of good will. The question in my mind is whether Western Europe can be unified while Germany remains divided. West ern Germany is a principal member of Western Europe. Yet Western Germany must look to the East, it must look to re union with Eastern Germany, and that means it must look to a settlement with Poland and with the Soviet Union. Until the German question is Evsnj. R. V. Sittstr WAYSIDE CHAPEL 2072 Buckshot Road Peter Deyoung and M. A. Simmonds, Pastors Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS the chain of countries which be long to the Arab league. It lies between French North Africa and Egypt. The United States has an im portant Air Force base in Libya. a it has in Saudi Arabia. Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Great Britain are the mem bers of the Baghdad Pact or alliance. It was feared, at the time OI the British-French attack on the Suez Canal zone that the Bagh dad alliance might be weakened beyond repair. Took Strong Stand Turkey. Iran, Iraq and Pakis tan are Moslem countries, like the Arabs. The attack was ex ceedingly embarrassing to them. They not unnaturally took a strong stand against the attack. But since then, the alliance has revived in importance. All of the Moslem members are strongly pro Western, even though Iraq is a member of tne Arab League. The four Moslem countries met in Ankara, the Turkish capi tal, on Jan. 19. They came out officially in full support of the Eisenhower Doctrine. They. thu beat out President Eisenhower's own Congress in approving his doctrine. resolved. Western Europe alone cannot be politically stable. If Western Europe is not politically stable, it cannot have power and influence in world affairs. It this is correct, then what West ern Europe needs in addition to a common market and the like is a common policy for a settle ment with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. IT IS NOT mere fantasy to imagine that Britain, which is withdrawing and reducing its global commitments, may find a new field for the exercise of its political genius in the unifi cation of Europe through a set tlement with Eastern Europe. If that were to happen, some thing great and good for all the world will come out of the self examination through which Great Britain is now passing. '(C) New York Herald Tribune Inc. SAVE! SAVE! GROCETERIA DOLLAR DAYS SEE THE GROCETERIA AD ON PAGES 6-7 We Cordially Welcome You To SPECIAL GOSPEL SERVICES Nightly at 7:30 p.m. Evang. R. V. Sittser of OntaWo, California. Declaring Good Newt of the Kingdom of God. Mysteries of the Church and Deliverance - !